A Day In The Life of an English Teacher

All the girls in my science class were absent and I had so much fun with the boys. I taught them to say 'yo', 'worrrrrrrd', and 'what it do' :) They are soooooooo cute! I taught them to lean their head back when they say yo, and seriously everytime one of them does it to me in the hall I just die. Cutest kids alive, seriously!!! When I wrote "what it do" on the board, one of my students asked "do you mean 'what does IT do?" LOL I had to explain that even though it makes no sense to say it, people will understand what it means.

In other news, several students in my class find the work to be too difficult, yet none of them seem to move down a level. Apparently this is because no parents want to admit that their child needs to be 'demoted'. You know the whole 'the customer is always right' thing, well here the Korean parents are the customers. What they say goes, even if it is detrimental to their child academically.

Today I had my first parent-teacher conference... think it went surprisingly well. The manager of the school is quite pleased as I convinced the father to allow his son to return to the program-- he was concerned that it was too difficult (finally a parent who is concerned in the right direction!). Yaaay for talking to the dad rather than the mom, men typically seem easier to deal with.